Large text on the top and bottom says "A Midsummer Night's Dream". In the centre, four people are in an enchanted forest at night with a large moon behind them. They're wearing loose fitting clothing in earth tones. Three of them are wearing crowns made from branches and one is wearing donkey ears.

Mike Nadajewski, Michael Spencer-Davis, Sara Topham and André Sills. Photo: Dariane Sanche

Tom Patterson Theatre

May 1 – September 26 |

Opens May 27

Shakespeare

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM

By William Shakespeare

Developed in collaboration with Groundling Theatre

Directed by Graham Abbey

Magic, mischief and moonlight

Strange things happen in the woods by night, with neither spirit nor mortal safe from the wiles of the trickster Puck. For mismatched lovers, romance runs delightfully amok, but true love triumphs at dawn.

MEIGHEN FORUM EVENTS

CAST & CREATIVE

CAST

Birmingham Conservatory, 2005

2026: Oberon in A Midsummer's Night Dream and Othello in Othello. 12th season. Stratford:The Winter's Tale, Macbeth, Get That Hope (director), Twelfth Night, King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, Richard III, All's Well That Ends Well, Coriolanus, The Tempest, etc. Elsewhere: Director: The Royale (Citadel Theatre); Gloria (ARC/Crow's). Acting: Glass Menagerie, Sex, An Octoroon, "Master Harold"...and the Boys (Shaw Festival); Julius Caesar (Crow's Theatre). Film/TV: Revenge of the Black Best Friend, Kim's Convenience (CBC); Slumberland (Netflix); Private Idiots (YouTube). Voiceover: Tiny Louis in Summer Memories (Family); Fins in Sago Mini Friends (Apple TV). Training: George Brown Theatre School. Awards: Sterling Award for Direction, The Royale; Toronto Theatre Critics Award and Dora Award - Best Actor, "Master Harold" ...and the Boys; MyEntWorld Critics' Pick Award - Best Actor, An Octoroon. Online: @dre373. Et cetera: Love you Rian & Naia. For Joe, Philip and Granny Beryl.

2026: Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Duke of Venice in Othello and John Perrin in The King James Bible Play. 13th season. Stratford: London Assurance, Twelfth Night, Richard II, Love's Labour's Lost, Hamlet, The Miser, The Front Page, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Paradise Lost, Timon of Athens, The Changeling, Shakespeare in Love, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Aeneid, Taming of the Shrew, Possible Worlds, The Beaux' Stratagem, Richard III, Julius Caesar, Bartholomew Fair, Shakespeare's Universe. Elsewhere: Wicked Nix (YPT); Dock Spider (Magnus Theatre); The 4th Graders Present an Unnamed Love Suicide (Tiny Room); Jerusalem (OTM/Company Theatre); Silence, Art (Grand Theatre); A Christmas Carol (Western Canada Theatre); Hound of the Baskervilles (Globe Theatre); Pitmen Painters, Boeing Boeing (Theatre Aquarius); Vigil, Lawrence and Holloman (Prairie Theatre Exchange); Having Hope at Home (Neptune); Twelfth Night, The Tempest (Hartford Stage); The Lonely Diner (Blyth Festival); Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth (NAC).

2026: Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Cath in The King James Bible Play and movement director of The Hobbit. 17th season. Stratford (selected): Shakespeare's Hermione, Juliet, Olivia, Cordelia, Jessica, Rosalind; roles in: Ransacking Troy, Hedda Gabler, Serving Elizabeth, Blithe Spirit, The Misanthrope, Peter Pan, Dangerous Liaisons and many others. Broadway: Cecily in Travesties, Gwendolen in The Importance of Being Earnest, Sally in the original Broadway company of Tom Stoppard's Leopoldstadt. Off-Broadway: Beatrice-Joanna in The Changeling. In the U.K.: Love Me Do, Intimate Apparel. Elsewhere: Two seasons at the Shaw Festival playing the title role in Saint Joan and Ann Whitfield in Man and Superman, Beatrice at The Old Globe, Titania and Ariel at The Shakespeare Theatre Company (D.C.) and appearances on many other stages worldwide. With gratitude to my dear friend Pablo, and love for my nephews Eric, William, and Nathaniel for whose delight my work in The Hobbit is made.

2026: Theseus in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Iago in Othello. 12th season. Stratford: Sky Masterson (Guys and Dolls), Pericles (Pericles), Edgar (King Lear), Titania/Oberon (A Midsummer Night's Dream), Tom Joad (Grapes of Wrath), Lucius (Titus Andronicus), Petruchio, Mercutio, Elizabeth Rex. Elsewhere: Pierre Bezukhov (…The Great Comet of 1812) Crows Theatre, Mirvish; John (Fulfillment Centre) Coal Mine Theatre; Bruce (Fun Home) Mirvish, Musical Stage; Larry (Dear Evan Hansen), Khashoggi (We Will Rock You), Aragorn (The Lord of the Rings) Mirvish; Yvan (Art) Canadian Stage; Jamie (Long Day's Journey) Soulpepper; Macduff (Macbeth) Chicago Shakespeare. Shaw Festival: Dick Dudgeon (The Devil's Disciple), Stanhope (Journey's End), Jack Worthing (…Earnest), Octavius (Man and Superman). Film/TV: Vought Rising, Holly Hobbie, Departure, Under the Banner of Heaven, Murdoch Mysteries. Awards: Dora Award, Fun Home; Canadian Screen nomination, Departure. Online: @evanbuliung. Et cetera: Thank you, Antoni, best wishes for your next adventure! Welcome, Mr. Church!

Birmingham Conservatory, 2024

2026: Demetrius in A Midsummer Night's Dream and appears in Othello. Fourth season. Stratford: Edward Ferrars/Robert Ferrars in Sense and Sensibility, Azolan in Dangerous Liaisons, appeared in As You Like It, Peter in Romeo and Juliet, Martin in London Assurance, Benicio in Twelfth Night, Harry Percy in Richard II, Waiter in Grand Magic and understudy in Love's Labour's Lost. Elsewhere: A Few Good Men, Twelve Angry Men, The Miracle Worker, The Birds and the Bees, Death of a Salesman, Brighton Beach Memoirs (Drayton); The Cider House Rules reading (Talk is Free); Suitcases/Provenance workshop (Canadian Stage). Film/TV: Jump, Darling (opposite Cloris Leachman), Deadbolt, In the Dark, Murdoch Mysteries, Man Seeking Woman, Heroes Reborn, Bitten, Reign. Radio/recordings: Strange Loops (audiobook). Training: The Randolph College for the Performing Arts. Awards: Michael Mawson Award. Online: @tomsdup (Instagram).

Birmingham Conservatory, 2015/2016

2026: Hippolyta inA Midsummer Night's Dream and Bombur in The Hobbit. 10th season. Stratford: Psamathe, Circe in Ransacking Troy, Mattie in Wedding Band, Co-Host of Showstarters, Tituba in The Crucible, Les Belles-Soeurs, Death and the King's Horseman, The Neverending Story, As You Like It, Love's Labour's Lost, Hay Fever. Elsewhere:Ruby and the Reindeer (Here For Now); Death and the King's Horseman Radio Play (Soulpepper); Romeo & Juliet (Spontaneous Theatre); A Christmas Carol (Theatre New Brunswick); five seasons with the Shaw Festival including Major Barbara, Ragtime, Born Yesterday; Binti's Journey (Theatre Direct); The Aftermath (Nightwood Theatre); A Midsummer Night's Dream (Canadian Stage). Film/TV: Murdoch Mysteries, Hamlet (2022), Death and the King's Horseman, Love's Labour's Lost, Hamlet, Macbeth, Timon of Athens (STRATFEST@HOME). Training: Birmingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre; BFA, University of Windsor. Et cetera: To my loves J, Z and S.

2026: Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Bianca in Othello and Han in The King James Bible Play. Stratford debut. Elsewhere (selected): Guarded Girls, The Circle, Forests, Hush (Tarragon Theatre); Enormity, Girl, and the Earthquake in Her Lungs, Lo (or Dear Mr. Wells) (Nightwood Theatre); Infinity (National Arts Centre, Ontario tour); Harper Regan (Canadian Stage); Category E, Killer Joe (Coalmine Theatre); Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare in the Ruff); The Secret Garden (YPT). Film/ TV(selected): Transplant, Fitting In, Clouds, New Eden. Awards: Two Dora Award nominations, Outstanding Performance; ACTRA Award nomination, Outstanding Performance. Training: Linklater Voice Centre, Shakespeare & Company, Canadian Film Centre. Online: @vivien.e.douglas. Et cetera: Thanks to my incredible friends and family for their support. This debut is dedicated to my Grandmother, Audrey Douglas, who always shared and encouraged my love for the stage.

Birmingham Conservatory, 2017/2018

2026: Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Cassio in Othello. Eighth season.

Birmingham Conservatory, 2014/201

2026: Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Emilia in Othello. Ninth season. Stratford: Elinor Dashwood (Sense and Sensibility), La Marquise de Merteuil (Dangerous Liaisons), Phoebe (As You Like It), Viola (Twelfth Night), Lady Capulet (Romeo and Juliet), Helen (All's Well That Ends Well), Lady Anne (Richard III), Bess (Mother's Daughter). As playwright: The Dark Lady (SIR-SotS, Lunchbox-TSC, Bard on the Beach, Synchronicity Theatre), Pandora (HFN, PTE). Both plays are published and available online and at the Stratford Festival Theatre Shops. The Dark Lady is part of the American Shakespeare Center's 2026 season in Staunton, Virginia. Film/TV: The Boys, Five Days at Memorial, Kings of Napa. Voice/mocap: Star Wars Outlaws. Training: Birmingham Conservatory, McGill University, Dawson College. Awards: SATA for Artistic Excellence - The Dark Lady; Bernard Amyot Teaching Award - NTS; Mary Savidge Award - Stratford Festival. Online: @jessicabhill.

Birmingham Conservatory, 2012

2026: Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Gratiano in Othello. Ninth season. Stratford: Timon of Athens, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Physicists, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream: A Chamber Play, Fiddler on the Roof, Jesus Christ Superstar (also Broadway), Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris. Elsewhere: Nine seasons with the Shaw Festival, including Tons of Money, Gnit, On the Razzle, Damn Yankees, Charley's Aunt, The Russian Play, Happy End; Dave in The Vinyl Cafe (The Citadel Theatre); The Baker in Into the Woods (RCM); Anton in All the Cows are Dead, Valere in La Bête, George in Sunday in the Park with George (TIFT); Man-in-Chair in The Drowsy Chaperone (Drayton Entertainment); Anthony in Outside Mullingar; Emcee in Cabaret (RMTC). Film/TV: Murdoch Mysteries (CBC), Private Eyes (Global), Gracie and Pedro (GTE), The Understudy, Northern Tracks (Stratfest@Home).

2026: Egeus in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Gandalf in The Hobbit and Trevor Flynn in The Tao of the World. 14th season. Stratford (selected): Matthew Cuthbert in Anne of Green Gables, John Proctor in The Crucible, Chris Keller in All My Sons, Sir Robert Chiltern in An Ideal Husband, Alcibiades in Timon of Athens, Horatio in Hamlet, Buckingham in Henry VIII. Elsewhere (selected): James Piper in Fall on your Knees (Canadian Stage/NAC/Neptune/Grand); Oberon/Theseus in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare Theatre Company, D.C.); Victor in Private Lives (Chicago Shakespeare); Hap Loman in Death of a Salesman (Soulpepper); Nick in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Soulpepper). Film/TV (selected): High Commander Reynolds in The Handmaid's Tale (Hulu), Dave Holm in Fellow Travellers (Showtime), Leconte Bascomb in Under the Banner of Heaven (FX). Awards: Dora Award, Best Ensemble (Twelve Angry Men); recipient of the Dora Mavor Moore Guthrie Award (for outstanding contribution to the Stratford Festival).

(she/her)

Birmingham Conservatory, 2004/2005

2026: First Fairy in A Midsummer Night's Dream and understudy in The Hobbit. 18th season.
Stratford (selected): Miss Hannigan (Annie), Malvolio (Twelfth Night), Pauline (Casey and Diana), Mary Shelley (Frankenstein Revived), Emelia (Othello), Irene Malloy (Matchmaker), Mistress Page (Merry Wives of Windsor), Mrs. Darling (Peter Pan), Ashley (Virgin Trial), Chrysothemis (Elektra), Helena (Midsummer Night's…), Audrey (As You Like It), Chorus Leader (Bakkhai). Elsewhere (selected): A Doll's House (Canadian Stage); Fifteen Dogs (Mirvish/Crow's); Madam Minister (Talk Is Free); Fun Home (Mirvish/Musical Stage); A Delicate Balance, Idomeneus, The Heidi Chronicles, The Crucible, The Norman Conquests (Soulpepper); An Enemy of the People, Sextet (Tarragon); Chimerica (Canadian Stage/MTC); THIS (Canadian Stage); Top Girls (Segal Centre); 4:48 Psychosis (Necessary Angel). Awards: Dora nominee/winner; two-time Toronto Theatre Critics award winner. Film/TV: The Players (dir. Sarah Galea-Davis), The Lake, Nurses, Murdoch Mysteries, others. Et Cetera: Thank you, Bryan. Hi Jnr.

2026: Fili in The Hobbit, Millicent Tan in The Tao of the World and appears in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire (The Citadel/Theatre Calgary); Amy in Little Women (Theatre Calgary); Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Bard on the Beach); Mustard (The Arts Club/Belfry); The Brothers Paranormal, Peril in the Alps, Murder on the Links (Vertigo Theatre); Please Return to Empire Video (Lunchbox Theatre); New Canadian Kid (Green Thumb Theatre). Film/TV: Grandma Lee's Dress (CBC Gem). Video games: Melody in 1000xResist (Sunset Visitor), motion capture for K/DA at the 2020 League of Legends Opening Ceremony. Training: UBC BFA Acting, FDC Intermediate Actor Combatant. Awards: 2x Betty Mitchell Award Nominee for Outstanding Supporting Performance in a Drama and Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble, Wesbrook Scholar, recipient of the HSBC Undergraduate Award and Stephen Woodhouse Memorial Prize. Online: @heidi.damayo. Et cetera: For all my loved ones.

2026: Quince in A Midsummer Night's Dream and appears in Othello. 15th season. Stratford (selected): Marilla (Anne of Green Gables), Gaylax (Ransacking Troy), Maria (Twelfth Night), Sian Ap Dafydd (1939), Mollie Malloy (The Front Page), Sin (Paradise Lost), Dr. Livesey (Treasure Island), Lady Anne (Richard III), Electra (Electra, The Flies), Sibyl (Private Lives) and Lady Macduff (Macbeth). Elsewhere (selected): The Antipodes, Marjorie Prime (Coal Mine); Mustard, The Small Room at the Top of the Stairs, Communion, The Fall, Humble Boy (Tarragon); Domesticated, A Whistle in the Dark, Marion Bridge (Company Theatre); Age of Arousal, The Penelopiad (Nightwood); Terminus (Outside the March/Centaur/Belfry). Film/TV: Priscilla, Hudson & Rex, Anne with an E, Murdoch, Ginny & Georgia. Awards: Two Dora Awards with four nominations and a Toronto Critic's Award.

2026: Snug in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Willie in The King James Bible Play and appears in Othello. Third Season. Stratford: Jane Andrews in Anne of Green Gables, Ron, Ichiro in Forgiveness, Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet and Li Shilong in Salesman in China. Elsewhere: Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Canadian Stage); Pirithous/Wooer in The Two Noble Kinsmen (Shakespeare BASH'd); Cockroach in Cockroach (Tarragon Theatre). Director: Concord Floral (Pucker's); Ride the Cyclone (Shifting Ground Collective); A Perfect Bowl of Pho (Kick & Push Festival/Toronto Fringe Festival); Ordinary Days (Shifting Ground Collective). Awards: Toronto Workshop Productions (George Luscombe Award); Dora Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble. Online: @steven_haoby. Et cetera: Please say hi if you ever encounter Steven in the wild, he's mostly harmless!

(she/ her)

2026: Snout in A Midsummer Nights Dream, Old Took in The Hobbit and Eleanor Marwood in The Tao of the World. Sixth season. Stratford: Muriel Eubanks in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Dindon in La Cage, Smee in Wendy & Peter, Annie, Man of La Mancha, A Little Night Music, Private Lives. Elsewhere: Miss Stacy in Anne, Tanya in Mamma Mia! (Charlottetown Festival); 5 Villains in the Ross Petty Pantos; Myth of the Ostrich, Take Care (Here For Now); Kate in The Wild Party, Charlotte in Falsettos (Musical Stage); Mary in Mary Poppins, Fantine in Les Mis, Original Canadian Alison in Fun Home (Arts Club); Baker's Wife in Into the Woods (Neptune); Velma in Chicago (Mayfield); Rona in Spelling Bee (Belfry); (Drayton). Online: @sjhosie. Et cetera: Check out SJ's new venture The Leonor on George Street. @theleonorongeorge.

2026: Flute in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Thorin in The Hobbit and understudy in The Tao of the World. Fifth season. Stratford: Jaques in As You Like It, Monty Python's Spamalot, The Homecoming, Twelfth Night and Henry in Henry V. Broadway: The Lehman Trilogy, The Height of the Storm, Summer, Cabaret, Macbeth, The Farnsworth Invention, The Coast of Utopia, Julius Caesar, Henry IV, The Invention of Love. West End: The Lehman Trilogy. Off-Broadway: Coriolanus (Red Bull); Clive (the New Group). Regional: Theatre Royal Sydney, ACT, La Jolla Playhouse, Folger Shakespeare Theatre, Westport, Hartford Stage, TUTS, ASF, The Old Globe. Sam Mendes's The Bridge Project. Film/TV: Fosse/Verdon; I Love You… But I Lied; Boardwalk Empire; Law & Order: SVU; Welcome to New York. Training: MFA, The Old Globe Theatre. Online: @aaronckrohn. Et cetera: Check out his band, Notes From Underground, and their EP, Rock, Pith & Brevity wherever you listen to music.

(he/him)

2026: Balin in The Hobbit. Jackson Lee in The Tao of the World, and appears in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Third season. Stratford: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Annie, Salesman in China, Romeo and Juliet. Elsewhere: Zhang Lin in Chimerica (Duceppe); Jay in Frog Song (Here For Now/Stratford Symphony); Chinatown (City Opera Vancouver); Old Man and the River (WeeFestival); The Cave (Luminato); Antonio in The Tempest (Citadel); Narrator/Mysterious Man in Into the Woods, Louis in Pal Joey, Beadle in Sweeney Todd (TIFT); Mr. Beaver in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Theatre New Brunswick); Mr. Shi and His Lover (Tarragon/NAC); Boy in Blood Weddings (Modern Times/Aluna Theatre). Awards: Toronto Theatre Critics Award - Best Supporting Actor in a Musical. Online: derekkwan.net, @kwanzoku.

2026: Montano in Othello, Sir Henry Savile in The King James Bible Play and understudy in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Eighth season. Stratford (selected): Herman in Wedding Band, Orlando in As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing, Cymbeline, Possible Worlds, Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, and Bunny. Elsewhere (selected): Buddy in Kimberly Akimbo (Segal Centre/Mirvish); Blackbird, La Bête, Sweeney Todd (Talk is Free Theatre); Winter Solstice (Necessary Angel/Canadian Stage); Come From Away (You Are Here Inc, Gander, NL); On Golden Pond (Drayton Festival); The Secret Chord: A Leonard Cohen Experience and Twelve Angry Men (Soulpepper Theatre); A Christmas Carol (Ross Petty Productions); Oil (ARC Toronto). Film/TV: Roger and Rupert Newsome on Murdoch Mysteries; Accused (Fox). Training: London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Awards: Dora Mavor Moore Award. Et cetera: Cyrus dedicates this season with love to his wife Joanne and his daughter Eliza.

2026: Appears in A Midsummer Night's Dream and understudy in The Hobbit. Stratford debut. Elsewhere (selected): Maria in The Sound of Music, Controlled Damage (Grand Theatre); Sophie in Mamma Mia, Shrek the Musical, Wizard of Oz, A Christmas Carol (Neptune Theatre); April Fools (Segal Centre); Once (Thousand Islands Playhouse); Truth, Shrek the Musical (Young People's Theatre); Master and Margarita (Crow's); Buddy Holly Story, Annie (Drayton Entertainment); Almost A Full Moon in Concert (Citadel Theatre). Film: Weirdos (Lithium Studios, Canadian Screen Award Winner for Best Original Screenplay). Training: Bachelor of Music Theatre Performance, Sheridan College. Online: @leblancdominique. Et cetera: Much love to my family in Nova Scotia, my friends & the 10 team! Thank you for being the best support system. For my grandparents.

(he/him/il)

2026: Bilbo in The Hobbit and appears in A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tao of the World. Second season. Stratford: Nibs in Peter Pan. Elsewhere: Bing in WIGHTS (Crow's Theatre); Ensemble in Snow in Midsummer (Shaw Festival/NAC); Orphan of Chao (Shaw Festival); Leontes in The Winter's Tale (Shakespeare in the Ruff); Richard in The Humans (Citadel Theatre/Canadian Stage); Falkor in The Neverending Story (Roseneath Theatre); Kai in acquiesce (Factory Theatre/fu-GEN Theatre). Film/TV: Law & Order Toronto: CI; Kim's Convenience; and SHORTY, a light-hearted short about being "short" in a basketball world. Awards: Dora Award Recipient - Sultans of the Street, Cinderella: A RATical Retelling (YPT); paper SERIES (Cahoots Theatre). Online: @RichardTheArtistLee. Et cetera: Richard is also a fight and movement designer, educator, and emerging filmmaker. His passion for storytelling in all forms led to the creation of Monday Nights (Theatre Centre/6th Man Collective), an interactive and immersive basketball theatre show.

2026: Appears in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Othello. Third season.

2026: Anna in The King James Bible Play and appears in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Othello. Stratford debut. Elsewhere: Starveling in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Canadian Stage); Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Panoply Theatre Collective). Film/TV: Under the Kasaya, What We Do in the Shadows (FX), A Gentleman. Training: Loose Moose Theatre Company, Toronto Metropolitan University. Online: @angelssellingout. Et cetera: Thanks mom, thanks dad, I love you <3

(he/they)

2026: Appears in A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tao of the World and understudy in The Hobbit. Second season. Stratford: Casey and Diana. Elsewhere: Life of Pi (Citadel/RMTC); Wicked Nix (Young People's Theatre); Fifteen Dogs (Segal Centre); No Big Deal (Roseneath Theatre); rihannaboi95 (Young People's Theatre); Concord Floral (Canadian Stage). Training: York University's Acting Conservatory. Online: @davinder.pdf. Et cetera: I'm so grateful for my family and friends, and the wonderful team at 10 Talent. All of this is a dream come true.

2026: Starveling in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Bard, Gollum in The Hobbit and Wilson Wong in The Tao of the World. Second season. Stratford: Silvius in As You Like It, Hideo in Forgiveness. Elsewhere (selected): Four seasons at the Shaw Festival, title characters in Everybody and Prince Caspian; Village Wooing, Doctor's Dilemma, Victory, Cyrano...; Handsome in Snow in Midsummer (Shaw/National Arts Centre); Edgar in Lear, Demetrius in Titus Andronicus (Canadian Stage/Shakespeare in High Park); Borachio in Much Ado About Nothing, Octavius in Julius Caesar (St. Lawrence Shakespeare); Arcite in Two Noble Kinsmen, Lucio in Measure for Measure (Shakespeare BASH'd); Mowgli in The Jungle Book (Magnus); Christmas Carol (Grand); Hymn of the Weaverbird (找我劇場 ESP-I, Taiwan); Man in 彼岸 (Gateway). Writing: Translation and adaptation: The Orphan of Chao (Shaw). Film/TV: What We Do in the Shadows (FX). Awards: Dora nominee; Maureen Forrester Award (Stratford); Saunderson Award (Shaw). Online: @michaelman1n.

(she/they)

Birmingham Conservatory 2025/2026

2026: Fairy in A Midsummer Night's Dream and appears in The Tao of the World. Second season. Stratford: Audrey in As You Like It, Forgiveness, Dangerous Liaisons. Elsewhere: Quartet (VideoCabaret, Other Hearts); On What Ground (Theatre Gargantua, Other Hearts); The Slaughter Brothers Dime Circus (babymonster); Mad Ones (Tangled Art + Disability); Lot And His God (Desiderata Theatre); Johnny Belinda (Smile Theatre); Little Red, Jack and the Beanstalk, Treasure Island, Three Musketeers (Stirling Festival). Film/TV: Murdoch Mysteries, Good Witch, Call Me Fitz. Training: B.A. English, Creative Writing and Interdisciplinary Sexuality Studies (Concordia University); Musical Theatre (American Musical and Dramatic Academy NYC); Theatre (Interlochen Arts Academy). Awards: 2024 Dora Nominee - Quartet. Online: otherhearts.ca. Et cetera: Vae is a founding member of Other Hearts Collective and a Mad/Disabled advocate for adaptive arts practice. Love to the Pondhouse, my otherheartists and community, and eternally Cake.

Birmingham Conservatory, 2025/2026

2026: Fairy in A Midsummer Night's Dream and appears in Othello. Third season. Stratford: Macbeth, The Winter's Tale, The Goat or, Who is Sylvia?, Cymbeline. Elsewhere: Alcestis, Tartuffe, The Witch of Edmonton (Theatre Erindale), Retrograde (Toronto Fringe). Film/TV: Workin' Moms seasons 6 and 7 (CBC/Netflix); Macy Murdoch (CBC/Shaftesbury); Pie Boy (Ace Entertainment). Writer/composer: She, Men, & The Giant Snake (Ottawa undercurrents/ Soulpepper Theatre/ Buddies in Bad Times); The Gray: A Wilde Musical (Hart House Theatre); One Song Glory (Musical Stage Company). Training: Theatre and Drama Studies - University of Toronto/Sheridan College. Online: anthony-palermo.com, @anthxnypalermo. Et cetera: Grateful for my family and friends for their endless support, and the mentors who have taught me so much.

2026: Philostrate in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Roderigo in Othello and George Abbot in The King James Bible Play. 11th season. Stratford (selected): Dennis/Matthaeus (The Art of War), Cool (London Assurance), Sir Andrew Aguecheek (Twelfth Night), Cornwall (King Lear), Parolles (All's Well…), Reverend Hale (The Crucible), Lucullus (Timon…), Wessex (Shakespeare in Love), Karl Gustav (Christina, The Girl King), White Knight (Alice Through the Looking-Glass). Elsewhere: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Canadian Stage); Reproduktion (Here For Now); La Bête (Talk is Free); Lion in Winter (Grand); East of Berlin, The December Man (ATP); Am I Not King? (Zone 41); Enron (Theatre Calgary); Beyond the Farm Show (Blyth); The Story (Common Boots); Macbeth (CaravanFarm); A Doll's House (Globe). Film/TV: Law and Order Toronto, Murdoch Mysteries. Training: NTS. Awards: John Hirsch Award; Betty Award for Vincent in Brixton. Online: @wilkierylan. Et cetera: All my love to Krystin, Anna and Ellen.